Sleeping on the couch tonight? Netanyahu contradicts his wife: "There was no treason on October 7"

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected today (Tuesday) the conspiracy theory that internal treason was behind the October 7 attack. "There was no treason on October 7," Netanyahu said, thereby contradicting the hint made by his wife, Sara Netanyahu, in an interview with Channel 14 regarding the conduct of the Democrats chairman Yair Golan on the morning of the attack.

"It is nonsense. I have been asked before if there was treason and I said several times no, I do not think there was treason. I think there was a major failure, and it is expressed in what actually happened during the night and the morning before the attack. All the signs were there, and due to a judgment error, a miscalculation, not to anger Hamas, it was decided not to wake me up and not to strike preemptively. It is a failure, but it is not treason."

The Prime Minister's words come after Sara Netanyahu caused a stir when she wondered how Golan arrived at the combat zone early on the morning of October 7. "When you are a military man of such a high rank and you claim that you fought on October 7, you were already there early in the morning, dressed and ready," she said. "At a very, very early hour that others did not know about, such as the Prime Minister." Netanyahu did not present evidence that Golan knew in advance about the Hamas attack.

When asked explicitly about the treason theory, Sara Netanyahu said she did not want to address it directly. Later, she criticized the demand to establish a state commission of inquiry to investigate the failures of October 7.

Golan demands an apology and threatens a 2.5 million shekel lawsuit

Earlier today, Golan sent Sara Netanyahu a warning letter before taking legal action for defamation. He demanded that she publish a public apology within 24 hours and pay compensation that would be transferred in full to the survivors of the Nova party. If she does not comply with his demands, he announced that he would file a lawsuit against her for an amount of no less than 2.5 million shekels.

In the letter, his lawyers claimed that Netanyahu's words are "slanderous and false statements" and that they portray Golan as someone who was supposedly "a partner in an act of treason." According to Golan's version detailed in the letter, he learned of the attack when the sirens sounded at 06:29, left his home in his private car to the Home Front Command headquarters, equipped himself with an assault rifle, and from there drove to the Gaza envelope. During that morning, according to the letter, he rescued six young people who fled the Nova party.

Democrats chairman Gadi Eizenkot also spoke out against the remarks and called the treason theory "a crazy conspiracy with no factual basis." Referring to Golan, he said: "There are those who say that 'they were not woken up,' and there are those who got up and charged - without asking questions."